Volume : VI, Issue : VII, July - 2017

Quantifying Hardness of the water of Chincholi tank of Solapur District, Maharashtra

V. S. Gadekar

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 The water in which the soluble salts like calcium, magnesium, chloride, Sulfate and bicarbonates are present is called as hard water, while the water with fewer salts is called as soft water. Originally, water hardness was understood to be a measure of the capacity of water to precipitate soap. Soap is precipitated chiefly by the calcium and magnesium ions. Other polyvalent cations also may precipitate soap, but they often are in complex forms, frequently with organic constituents, and their role in water hardness may be minimal and difficult to define. Hence, total hardness can be defined as the sum of the calcium and magnesium concentrations. In the present investigation hardness was found maximum in summer while minimum in winter. Results are discussed with recent literature.

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V.S. Gadekar, Quantifying Hardness of the water of Chincholi tank of Solapur District, Maharashtra, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE‾7 | JULY -2017

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